Novel and Nation in the Muslim World

Literary Contributions and National Identities
2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-47757-6
Verlag: Springer Nature Singapore

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 146 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 4041 g

Reihe: Islam and Nationalism

Exploring the relationship between fiction and nation formation in the Muslim world through 12 unique studies from Azerbaijan, Libya, Iran, Algeria, and Yemen, amongst others, this book shows how fiction reflects and relates the complex entanglements of nation, religion, and modernity in the process of political and cultural identity formation.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuzmanovic, Daniella

Özdalga, Elisabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Glaubensrichtungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Literatur & Kunst
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
On the Contributors
Novel and Nation in the Muslim World: An Introduction; Elisabeth Özdalga
1. The End of Literary Narratives?; Gregory Jusdanis
PART I
2. Writing the Future in Early Turkish Republican Literature; Azade Seyhan
3. Becoming Azerbaijani Through Language: On the Impact of C?lil M?mm?dquluzad?'s Anam?n Kitab?; Zaur Gasimov
4. The Kurdish Novel and National Identity-Formation Across Borders; Hashem Ahmadzadeh
PART II
5. Nedjma: Kateb Yacine's Deconstruction of Algeria's Colonial Historiography; Abdelkader Aoudjit
6. For Bread Alone: How Moroccan Literature Let the Subalterns Speak; Florian Kohstall
7. Mahattat: 'Stations' on the Road to the Libyan Nation; Teetz Rooke
PART III
8. Deconstructing Nation and Religion: Young Saudi Women Novelists; Madawi al-Rasheed
9. Wajdi al-Ahdal and the Broken Yemeni Nation; Sören Hebbelstrup
10. Popular Religion and the Entry into Political Modernity as Seen in The Last of the Angels; Sami Zubaida
PART IV
11. Utopia and Dystopia in Early-Modern Persian Literature: Representations of the Advent of Modernity to Iran; Claus Valling Pedersen
12. Indian Shi?a Muslims and the Idea of Home in Rahi Masoom Reza's Work; Torkel Brekke
Afterword: Nations and Fictions; Daniella Kuzmanovic
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hashem Ahmadzadeh, Institute for Research and Development - Kurdistan, Erbil, Iraq
Madawi Al-Rasheed, London School of Economics, UK

Abdelkader Aoudjit, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Torkel Brekke, University of Oslo, Norway
Zaur Gasimov, Orient Institute Istanbul (DGIA/Max Weber Foundation), Turkey
Søren Hebbelstrup, Royal Danish Defence College, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gregory Jusdanis, Department of Classics, Ohio State University, USA
Florian Kohstall, Freie Universität Berlin at the German Science Center in Cairo, Egypt
Daniella Kuzmanovic, Institute for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Elisabeth Özdalga, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Tetz Rooke, University of Gothenburg in Sweden

Azade Seyhan, Bryn Mawr College, USA
Claus Valling Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Sami Zubaida, University of London, UK